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Re: [dinosaur] Murusraptor, New Megaraptoran Theropod from Late Cretaceous of Argentina (free pdf)
On Thu, Jul 21st, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Tim Williams <tijawi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, malformed monikers still tend to pop up in zoology and
> paleontology - like _Murusraptor_ or _Eousdryosaurus_ or
> _Gigantspinosaurus_ or _Aberratiodontus_. Syntactic compounds or not,
> these names just look bad.
There's one advantage of malformed names; they're unlikely to be preoccupied by
an insect. :-)
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